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ENFIELD:<\/strong> The phone number to East Hants RCMP has been caught up in a crime itself–being used in several spoofing incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beginning in mid-March, 2025, the detachment began fielding an unusually high number of telephone calls to the non-emergency line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n S\/Sgt. Michael Balmaceda said these calls were not the result of requesting police service, it was members of the public returning missed calls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The calls were received from all over North America,” said S\/Sgt. Balmaceda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”218″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that the RCMP Information Technology Department were engaged and the calls were temporarily routed to an automated system that redirected legitimate police calls to another non emergency number. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The RCMP East Hants was a victim of a telephone scam called Phone Spoofing,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phone spoofing is when a scammer sends false information to a caller ID to make it appear that a call is coming from a different number, usually from a trusted source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Scammers collect phone numbers from websites, classified ads, or even social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The issue appears to have been resolved, and the cause is being investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n S\/Sgt. Balmaceda said the East Hants RCMP phone number does not appear on received phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “If you do receive a call from the RCMP East Hants Staff that you do not answer, a voicemail will be left requesting a call back,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”78″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”92″] ENFIELD: The phone number to East Hants RCMP has been caught up in a crime itself–being used in several spoofing incidents. Beginning in mid-March, 2025, the detachment began fielding an unusually high number of telephone calls to the non-emergency line. S\/Sgt. Michael Balmaceda said these calls were not the result of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[196,1581,14,1344,8356],"class_list":["post-55641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-rcmp","tag-rcmp","tag-scammers","tag-spoofing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}